Dating, Relationships, Cultural Norms

[AnalystTherapist]

As to being "gay friendly" I kind of wonder WTF you mean with it? We had an openly gay MP and current leader of the Green party run for president. Try do that in the US. We just don't have an "issue" about it.

Finland shares some history with Russia so perhaps some cultural attitudes as well? In Russia, the native Russians have a low birth rate, so Putin and a lot of people have tried to discourage homosexual attitudes so their population doesn't decline. If that happens, then Russian's will have to rely on immigration. This is a touchy subject.

I find that places that are safe for homosexuals are more welcoming and open-minded (I lived in San Francisco for 2 years).

LOL, but yah, that's a weird thing to ask I guess.

[AnalystTherapist]

- Are there any small things (like how/when to contact each other - everyday, every few days, etc.) that is different here?
- So how often do y'all do it "here"?

This was @#$% hilarious! Please let me explain A friend of mine has a co-worker who married a Swede. He told me that women there are not very direct. Men have to initiative everything and when people are very passive aggressive. So, I was trying to ask, are people very direct when contacting each other. Are Finns the same as the Swedes? is what I should have asked. LOL

- What you imagine doing in Vaasa?

Hanken has 3 main economics programs: Economics & Financial Economics are offered in Helsinki and Quantitative Finance is offered in Vaasa. Quantitative Finance has some very interesting courses that I want to take but it's a very small program so I wanted to find out more about Vaasa.

So they're conservative compared to Helsinki? Life ends at Ring III?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_III
So outside of this boundary, people are considered to be backwards? They can't all be bad?

[Pursuivant]

I find that places that are safe for homosexuals are more welcoming and open-minded (I lived in San Francisco for 2 years).

Those granolas are so open-minded their brains are on the street...

[Pursuivant]

Are Finns the same as the Swedes?

Your big toe is about jiggling your tonsils.

[Pursuivant]

"Swedes are gay" - you will hear a lot. Maybe the men wear pink pants, maybe they groom metrosexual, but they *talk* all the time and about everything. Swedes go for the consensus and want to ask everybodys opinion. Finns say perkele. Also the Swedish men are so pussywhipped by their feminists so they don't know how to be men any more.

[Upphew]

Life ends at Ring III?
So outside of this boundary, people are considered to be backwards? They can't all be bad?

Depends where you live. Looking from here, the retardism starts at Ring 3 and is at its peak near parliament...